{"id":99,"date":"2026-08-18T12:10:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/m-a-k.net\/transportation\/steamermouravieff_apostol\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T17:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T17:42:17","slug":"steamermouravieff_apostol","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/m-a-k.net\/en\/transportation\/steamermouravieff_apostol\/","title":{"rendered":"SteamerMouravieff-Apostol"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 36px;\">Steamer &#8220;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Mouravieff-Apostol<\/em><\/span>&#8221; <\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><\/h1>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: 619px; width: 477px;\" src=\"https:\/\/m-a-k.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mak-archive\/images\/boats_planes_cars\/mouravieff-apostol\/img_5612.jpg\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><strong>The Russian passenger and cargo steamship <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em data-end=\"7299\" data-start=\"7279\">Mouravieff-Apostol<\/em><\/span>, formerly <em data-end=\"7338\" data-start=\"7310\">Velikaya Knyaginy\u00a0 Kseniya <\/em><\/strong><br data-end=\"7343\" data-start=\"7340\" \/><br \/>\nwas built by William Dobson &amp; Co., Newcastle upon Tyne, England, in 1895. It had a Steel hull with\u00a0approximately 2,006 gross registered tons. Her recorded dimensions were approximately <strong data-end=\"914\" data-start=\"888\">206.6 \u00d7 28 \u00d7 13.3 feet<\/strong>, with twin screws and a speed of about <strong data-end=\"966\" data-start=\"954\">13 knots<\/strong>\u00a0and a top\u00a0speed of approximately 14.5 knots. It carried cargo and some passengers on generally short hauls. Originally named in honor of Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna, the vessel was renamed <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em data-end=\"7600\" data-start=\"7580\">Mouravieff-Apostol<\/em> <\/span>following the February Revolution of 1917, almost certainly in commemoration of the Decembrist, Sergei Ivanovich Mouravieff-Apostol. She subsequently served with the surviving \u00e9migr\u00e9 fleet of the Russian Steam Navigation and Trading Company, operating under French administration from Marseille. The printed designation \u201c1re Cote Veritas (T.S.F.)\u201d indicates a first-class Bureau Veritas classification and installation of wireless telegraphy. The vessel was sold for breaking up in April of 1928.<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m-a-k.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mak-archive\/images\/boats_planes_cars\/mouravieff-apostol\/xenia1_-us_navy.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Picture of &#8220;Xenia&#8221; from US Naval Archive Photograph during construction<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: 343px; width: 473px;\" src=\"https:\/\/m-a-k.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mak-archive\/images\/boats_planes_cars\/mouravieff-apostol\/xenia3_-_underway.jpg\" width=\"609\" height=\"374\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Xenia&#8221; docked in Scotland c. 1896\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: 390px; width: 649px;\" src=\"https:\/\/m-a-k.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mak-archive\/images\/boats_planes_cars\/mouravieff-apostol\/xenia5_-_underway.jpg\" width=\"629\" height=\"345\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Xenia&#8221; underway c. 1898 North Sea\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m-a-k.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mak-archive\/images\/boats_planes_cars\/mouravieff-apostol\/xenia4_-_1918_renamed_m-a.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Xenia&#8221; after being renamed &#8220;Mouravieff-Apostol&#8221; in Marseilles c. 1918<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steamer &#8220;Mouravieff-Apostol&#8221; The Russian passenger and cargo steamship Mouravieff-Apostol, formerly Velikaya Knyaginy\u00a0 Kseniya was built by William Dobson &amp; Co., Newcastle upon Tyne, England, in 1895. It had a Steel hull with\u00a0approximately 2,006 gross registered tons. Her recorded dimensions were approximately 206.6 \u00d7 28 \u00d7 13.3 feet, with twin screws and a speed of about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-99","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m-a-k.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m-a-k.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m-a-k.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m-a-k.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m-a-k.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/m-a-k.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/m-a-k.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99\/revisions\/544"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m-a-k.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m-a-k.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}